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>>4283160

Continuing on from where we left off last thread, as the activity of the planet’s star is going back down, Gefjun is beginning to cool down. This is also causing the wind-speeds in the Cloud Layer to go decrease. Lowered wind-speeds and solar radiation is lying as the foundation of the tranquil period that life on Gefjun now sees. While many species have died out as a result of the great Sinky bloom that occurred 2 million years ago (due lack of Sinkyvores keeping the population in check), life has now begun to recover. The great blooms of Sinkies has mainly become limited to the Tropic of Storms, fueled by the abundance of electrical energy generated by the climate of the region. North of the Tropic of Storms, great Beard Floot islands, some the size of small continents, have begun forming. These act as a safe haven for all kinds of life in the upper cloud layer. Similarly, down in the stormy lower cloud layer, many organisms find refuge on and in GoldFloots, Hornuros and Zahuros.

At the current point in time a couple of distinct habitats around which life congregates can be said to exist:

The Haze Layer – Here the temperature is cool, though warmer than the uppermost parts of the upper cloud layer. The temperature climbs slowly with the elevation. It consists of hydrogen and trace amounts of water and ammonia.
The Upper Cloud Layer – Rich in hydrogen, helium, methane, water and ammonia. Also contains trace amounts of metals. The visibility is high, but so are the wind-speeds. Size is important to survival, or sticking to someone else of size.
Beard Floot Islands - Large, hydrogen-filled organisms mainly situated by warm updrafts. Please refer to the dossier.
The Lower Cloud Layer - Similar chemical composition to upper cloud layer. However, here permanent electrically charged storms reign and the visibility is low due to the ammonia and water-based clouds. Both the temperature and pressure is keeps increasing the further down you go.
Goldfloots – The organism’s sails offer shelter to many smaller species. Please refer to the dossier.
Huro’s of the Lower Cloud Layer - Large carnivorous creatures, the organisms are hosts to several small, parasitic life-forms. Please refer to the dossier.
The Gas Layer – No light reaches here. Both the temperature and pressure is high. The layer is made up of Gaseous Hydrogen and trace amounts of whatever falls down from the above. For now, only the non-organic Xiksu survive here.

Attached is a dossier of all currently extant organisms

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>>4283160
Please include the information of the attached example when you make your posts. This helps me and the other players keep track of generation, size and other useful information. Habitat can both cover the height and longitude at which the organism lives or around what it lives. Notes tracks information about the organism. Does it spit acid or are those buds on its rear perhaps primitive eyes? This is where you briefly note this down for future reference.

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Here's a map of the planet containing some information about the different layer's and latitudes that exists.

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Some useful rules of thumb:

Do’s/Don’ts:
•DO post no matter how bad your art is. It is the concept that counts, not how pretty you can make the creature’s shadows.
•DO try to use the pencil instead of brushes, as it will make future editing easier for your fellow creators. (i.e. avoid using anti-aliasing when drawing)
•DON’T overdo mutations. A creature doesn’t suddenly grow legs. It’s a gradual process.
•DON’T forget to link back to the creature/post that you have evolved when posting.
•DON’T forget to have fun!

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>>4283160
>>4283172

Here's a full-sized picture of Gefjun

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>>4283172
What if I don't WANT to have fun?

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>>4283211

Now listen here, you little shit

You are either going to have FUN or I'm going to make you miserable

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>>4283165
During the period of rapid winds and high temperatures, the Ballast Huro struggled to stay suspended admits storms and downdrafts. As such, the entire population was thought extinct by the 832 mil benchmark.

However, a small but stable population seems to have weathered the storm. The Blimp Huro has increased gasbags along its entire spinal axis. These provide both a solid insulation from harsher temperature swings, as well as provide a better buoyancy for minimum effort or elevation.
The Blimp Huro has made use of these advantages by migrating from the polar regions to the tropical regions, depending on the period of revolution Gefjun is at around its star. It preys largely on Floot species, both for flesh as well as gas.

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>>4283165
Another one of the species once thought extinct, the Daruro has managed to survive despite the great flourishing of the Zahuro and Hornuro. Though it has not survived unchanged.

Now known as the Solenoid Daruro, it has evolved a much larger mouth with increased bands of metal, capable of pulling far more prey than before. Said prey still being the sinkies and xiksu for flesh and metal respectively. Along with this, its electro-sensory organ has grown more complex; it can now "see" better during periods of higher EM-interference, mainly to counteract the noise generated during suction.

>>4283172
damn,i forgot to have fun.

am i banned from posting?

>>4283160
the sentifloot gains a flap to move better in storms

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>>4284013
Guy got rangebanned, here is the image.

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>>4283165
The Predadeva found on Floots diverge from their cousins found in the digestive tracks of Huro species.

With the abundance of both parasitic and mutualistic life residing on the tops and sides of Floots, forming their own ecosystems, new niches have opened up for this predatory species. Forming longer legs with an extra joint, as well as narrowing their tail, this species can navigate this new found "terrain" far more effectively than their deva prey.

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>>4283165
Few more from >>4283926

the long sentifloot has an expanded stomach in order to cull sinkies. It is slower but makes up for this by surviving longer without food

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>>4283165
>>4283926
the ropefly has developed mild speciation due to increased usage of claw material. some use this to grow bigger wings for more spore release

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>>4283165
>>4283926
others use this for bigger spores in general,getting longer claws for clamping down harder as well

>>4284124
>>4284122
What does that tail do?

>>4284160
It's spores

>>4284160
Essentially, the "tail" is a very slim spine-like structure, similar to the original Sinky's core, covered in feather-like fluff. This fluff in turn is used for lift and is where spores are generated in general. Though, I leave it up to the players to decide if the tail does play a part in reproduction for the Ropefly now that the Wings have been stated to also have this purpose.

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>>4284122
The Ropefly gains a flatter tail that more easily glides on the air.

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Recovering from the die-offs caused by the Great Sinky blooms, life was once again beginning to diverge; taking advantage of niches left open by their extinct kin and finding new paths to explore. In this tranquil period, both the genetic diversity and mass of life had begun to clim.

However, the question was what the future had in store for our inhabitants of Gefjun.

Event roll! First come first served!

>Make two rolls (4 and 10-sided dice respective). The first decide the cause of the event (1 = Organisms, 2 = Planet, 3 = Orbital Space, 4 = Space) The second will decide the impact of the event (1 = negative, 10 = positive).

Rolled 2 + 1 (1d4 + 1)

>>4284217

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>4284217

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>4284229
Sorry, fixing the d10 now.

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>>4284217
>>4284229
>>4284230
>>4284233

---The Coming of Rust---

While life is rebounding, effects still remain from the Sinky Blooms of old still rear their ugly heads. As the Sinkies captured much of the organic material during this time, the Vegae family starved. The comparable lack of photosynthesizing organisms caused H20 not to be captured in the production of sugars. As a result, the humidity in the Storm Layer (Lower Cloud) has since then steadily increased and been resting over the former level of only trace amounts. This has given cause to a rampant disease among the Xiksu inhabiting the Storm Layer; Rust. When the circumstances are right, condensation forms on the Xiksu’s body. Given the Nano-machine’s electricity-needing nature, it doesn’t take long until it finds itself breaking into pieces, eventually becoming unable to levitate itself through electromagnetism.

> Xiksu species who inhabit the storm layer begin dying off in droves. It’s up to the players to find solutions to this problem. All affected Xiksu and Xiksu dependant species are mildly endangered due to this event. Some can go extinct, depending on the outcome.

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>>4283165
>>4283926
the umbstay gains multiple grabbers that can almost net an creature trying to run through it

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>>4283165

Spreading from a Hornuro that collided with a Beard Floot colony, the Huragrowth came to eventually adapt to this new situation. Here it evolved to spread along the bottom of the Beard Grass, entagling and securing itself. It feeds on microscopic vegae that get caught on top of the Floots as well as dead beard grass. After having spread out over the whole upper side of the floot, the Huragrowth sprouts a structure containing the spore-filled "fruits". Devas and other feed on this, eventually passing the spores along to other floots on the colony.

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>>4283165
The Colgae Stalk is a colgae that has evolved to entangle itself in beard grass on the sides and bottoms of floots. Once secured, the "main" leaf fuses with the grass it's attached to. Here it sticks out and photosynthesizes, reproducing by strong winds pulling pieces off.

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The Raiwatsu is a raiksu which has constructed thin beams between the edges of its body to its base which draw water down to its most electrically charged body part: the lower spike. There, held together by surface tension, it carries the water which would potentially rust it in a drop held to its body only by electrical charge and water bonds

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Living in direct proximity to one another, the Arksu find that change spreads faster if you put in the effort to spread it yourself - and by spread it yourself I mean put half your code in someone else's code. Thus, sexual reproduction is born, with Arksu exchanging code to get down with the latest upgrades and updates.

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>>4283165
The Rustik is a rapidly exploding mutant of the Xik species. This species has made ample use of the Rust to propagate itself. Rather than generating a single progeny in its center, the Rustik creates several minor progeny around its core once it makes its way into the cloud layer. There, special joints that are designed to be particularly weak to rust break first, releasing the cores with a few basic filaments to ensure they equalize back in the gas layer.

This migratory spawning cycle leads to large clouds of Rustiks floating up form the gas layer to breed in the ample hunting grounds of electrical storms. Afterwords, the parents perish and let their young fall back to start the cycle anew.

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>>4283165
The Xiksu-Alloy finds its own way to counteract the rust plauging its other higher altitude cousins.

Though the large amount of building material used in Xiksu reconstruction is iron in nature, trace other metals make their way down into the planets' metallosphere. The Xiksu-Spear already possessed a method of harvesting mercury to power its lanters, this mutant has also enabled the collection and processing of aluminum and other non-tarnishing metals.

Others have had progress with harvesting trace amounts of carbon from their organic prey, and incorporating that into their largely-iron frames. This has created a far stronger and more resilient steel frame. More resilient to rust than before, but they still ultimately fall prey to the rust plague.

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>>4283165
The Spiralling Colgae is a variant that has evolved longer "pectoral" leaves along its main vine. While it still simply falls through the air, it is now slightly more capable of catching updrafts with its increased surface area. This has also nessessitated the breaking points to be tougher, so the forces felt against different parts of the vine don't break it apart prematurely.

The name stems from several instances of observation showcasing it spiralling through the air; whether this is classified as a majestic, gliding dance or an out-of-control tailspin is a source of much contention.

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>>4284829
the raiwatsu starts putting its progeny inside of water droplets, the progeny collects mild amounts water and drops down in order to have a good landing

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Scorthos and Aituros join forces in order to become bicycles.

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>>4283160

Chart time!

By the way, I will post the outcome of the event on monday around 20:00 GMT +2. Though, the outcome will probably be no surprise, given the creations above. At the same time I will also be introducing the new Era.

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>>4286185
The Scortho does it because it lets it go faster, and the Aituro does it because the Scortho is smart enough not to wheel off the floots and into the abyss

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>>4283160
the jeldeva starts deviating based on gender. the male gains longer backwings to fly faster, and the female gains teeth to eat the male while reproducing and lay dormant on a floot till she gives birth

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>>4284758
the colgae stalks start integrating into the floots,now able to sap a small amount of energy from their beard in order to survive with less sun

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>>4284117
the pretadeva gains a spikier jaw with a segmented head to it can move it around

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>>4283172
“The earth was his daughter and his wife. With her he made the first son”

And so, as the rage of Muspell died down, after 3 million years since its beginning, the Delling Era finally came to an end. Not with a bang, but a shallow gasp. Out of the remnants of one era another was born. However, unlike all previous eras, this one would not find itself defined by the void and its celestial inhabitants. Instead, this Era would come to be shaped by the organisms who lived in it.

In the cloud layers the last one million years, both the bio-mass and the amounts of elements readily available for those daring enough to take it, had steadily been climbing. In large part this had been made possible by the great increases in size that certain lines of Floots and Huros had seen. Hornuros and Zahuro’s roaming the skies not only preyed on life, but had also become habitats unto themselves, sprawling with tiny organisms. On a more major scale, the Goldfloots’ sails had created a refuge for life to flourish and develop. Here they were in large part kept safe from the constant storms outside, Raiwatsu-induced spawn-rain >>4286185 and the great gaping void below. Male Jeldevas >>4286204 could be found crawling around in the Goldfloot’s sails, gathering dead materials to form nests for spawning. Only to become food as a reward. Vampire Devas begrudingly shared this home with the large brutes; the small green creatures spending their time snipping off and feeding on the abundant Flootveg growing in the sails, and avoiding the gripping claws of the Umbstay >>4284445 piercing through the sail’s layers as they traversed their home.

But perhaps the most key players in all of this was the inseparable team: the Bearded Floot and its symbiote, the Bearded Grass. The two organisms could be found gathered and clinging onto each other; forming great sky-masses the size of countries, and in some cases the size of continents - kilometers across - and visible from space as small green dots. It was here that life had begun to see its largest diversity yet. Colgae Stalks >>4286212 and Huragrowth >>4284755 clung to any surface that was available and feasted on they nutrients that were being made easily available. Among the beard grass panicking Hidevas scurried about as Pretadeva packs >>4286224 gave chase, all of them unknowingly doomed as the Scortho >>4286185 began to suck on the grass in front of it. Nearby Aituros where crawling around, absent-mindedly chewing on the grass around them. Far above them flocks of Diveuro’s - hundreds of them - watched at the pickings below; waiting for the right time to strike… Many of them only to be snubbed as some Scorthos commandeered Aituros and drove away.

This was the beginning of a new era: The Jorth Era

>>4288273

Floots of the tentacle holding strain gain a small round organ in their centers; granting them Homeothermy (the ability to warm themselves up) thus turning them into heated balloons and greatly increasing their carrying capacity.

The Goldfloot habitats gain Raiwatsu rain ponds: small collections of water rich in metals and minerals (i.e. Raiwatsu spawn).

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>>4286204
it turns out that the additional nutrients a female can impart on its young from eating a male makes that male's offspring more likely to survive than the male inseminating more docile females. For that reason, the females develop mandibles that are more fitting for holding and consuming other Jeldevas.

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>>4283165
Some blind Paradevas in Hornhuros develop a very strange symbiosis with their hosts: As their social structure changes, and males start feeding females scraps in exchange for copulation, the females lose the need to scavenge. Instead, their hormonal glands start really swelling the fuck up while the Parabara itself gains a certain level of control over what hormones it produces.

This at the face of it useless evolution has surprising consequences: The Parabara female can inject excess hormones into the Hornuro, regulating its metabolism, providing it with enzymes it might lack or simply giving it an energy boost when it needs to. This way, Huros with Parabaras in them die off far less than others, thereby giving those Parabaras a huge advantage in the evolutionary race.

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>>4286152
Some Raiwatsus se their new scaffolding to spin between it its familiar lattice. Its movement is altered fundamentally: It uses its now conical shape to turn upside down and rotate to create an updraft and move up, until it turns around again to catch water for its reproduction.

Give me a creature that you think need some love. I want to join but don't know where to start. Reading the pdf atm

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>>4296537
Welcome aboard!

I would say that the Huro species and Floots could use some attention.

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>>4290024
the raiwatsu has flaps to collect more water

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>>4289436
male jeldevas gain a sack on their behing that carries some digested food. It makes them beck heavy but luckily they already have strong wings there

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>>4283160
the flootark has evolved a internal gas ring most of the time just increasing stability when floating around and when punctured or experiencing leakage it acts as a backup so it has a chance to heal instead of plunging down into the deep dark cold of the planet

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Rolled 1 (1d3)

Event time!

>I'm making Two rolls (3 and 10-sided dice respective). The first decide the cause of the event (1 = Organisms, 2 = Orbital Space, 3 = Space) The second will decide the impact of the event (1 = negative, 10 = positive).

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>4303814


Hmmm...

>>4303820
well we do still have the most primal form of plants still alive due to flootark you could do something with that?
also wow thats extremely neutral

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>>4303820
---- Event: The Contenders -----

Into an environment teeming with life they came: contenders for the future supremacy of Gefjun.

Mutating, merging, assimilating, A population of Zahuro ( >>4283165 ) found in the northern longitude, comes to closely incorporating the Arksu symbiotes into themselves. In exchange for more practical teeth, incorporated into its body, the Zahuro provides the teeth with excess metals and minerals, allowing them to grow to even greater sizes. This strain of Zahuro, the Ironhead, eventually spreads south. Having a much greater need for metals to grow its teeth, the Ironhead is unusually aggressive. It prays on other Zahuros, Daruros (>>4283741), Hornuros ( >>4283165 ) and the many floot varieties of the lower cloud layer, such as the Goldfloot >>4283165 , the Sentifloot >>4284120 >>4284094 and the Hexafloot .

The Wilturo is an and Aituro ( >>4283165 ) that has completely fused into a wheel shape. This allows it to roll even faster and get away from predators such as the Diveuro and the subjugation of the Scortho >>4286185. On the Bearded Floot islands it lives, rolling at very high speeds and ripping loose grass with its teeth as it rolls, making use of its momentum.

The Cortho ( >>4283165 ) is a Scortho that has evolved a cartilage and muscle structure in its wings. It has lost the ability to fly, instead using its newly evolved leg-wings and blimp body to run from the attacks of Diveuros.


The Jorth Whisp has evolved from the simple Vegae ( >>4283165 ) clumping on Flootarks ( >>4302758 ). It forms small, wispy, structures, creating more surface area for photosynthesis while still remaining under the protection of the Flootark’s cap-balloon. There is a problem though; the Jorth Whisps grow small blue and yellow buds at the end of their stalks. These buds contain a form of Cicutoxin, making them extremely poisonous to Floots and moderately so to the distantly related Huro family.

>>4304767
The Raibotsu ( >>4301354 ) is a Raiwatsu that has evolved to life in the Gold floot raiwatsu-ponds. Here it floats on the surface of the ponds. However, it leeches the minerals found in the water. This includes the spawn of other Raiwatsu.

Evolved as a result of predation from Zahuro species, the Spotting Hexafloot ( >>4283165 ) is covered in several simple spots. These spots are individually sensitive to light, together merging to create a very low resolution image of the Hexafloot’s surroundings.

The Dustae is an evolution of the original Vegae, ( >>4301354 ). Its dendrites have evolved to become longer and more numerous – creating a sort of fluff making it very easily stick not just to other Dustae, but also anything both large and small. Steadily Dustae builds up on the creatures it gets stuck on. Sinkies,, such as the ropeflies >>4284216 >>4284124 find their fluff being clogged up with the stuff, preventing the release of spores and weighting them down. Similarly, Huros, Floots and flying Deva ( >>4301357 ) species find themselves weighted down by the stuff unless they’re capable of removing it.

Finally, there’s the Bearded Flootline. An offshoot of the common Bearded Floot; 50% of Bearded Flootline lacks a stem, instead storing the organs that it held inside of its balloon-like body. The Flootlines lacking stems instead have a hole surrounding by powerful muscles. When young, the stemless Flootline attaches itself to a stemmed mature up-side-down Flootline. This allows for a closer connection between two Floots as well as a more easy interchange of genetic material.

>>4304767
>>4304774
>Players are free to make use of these new organisms.
>The organisms that are threatened by these new contenders might become endangered unless they find some way to overcome the current situation.

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>>4283670
Some Huros multiply their internal gas-sacs and grow a multitude of them around their torso. With these they can regulate their altitude more easily.

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>>4283160
the hideva has changed surprisingly little for such a long time but no more the most major change being its camouflage becoming better simply by there wings becoming bigger covering much more of there body some changes in the back leg making it better at clinging to its little world, longer eye stalks to be more on the look out for predators and shorter more power full mouth combs

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>>4286224
from a birth effect that make them too big for there own shells and what would be for a any other being like a classic primate on a normal planet would be like folding back your own tongue and forcing it back so far in there mouth that it dug out from under there jaw bone and slithered to where there ears are, this horrific comparison, describes this extreme disfigurement, and apparently this horrific extremely unattractive mutant had apparently a super good adaptation of not having there FUCKING sensitive eyes where they eat, sure its shell cracking, spineless necked freak but now its easier to kill and eat other creatures

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>>4309778
the pretadeva has gained more spikes to stop attacks from the side

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>>4301354
a easy change has revolutionized the species by just flipping over it can much so much higher air resistance slowing falling and making it easier to stay up and with this flip has allowed them to produce a drop on each corner with the moisture channels speeding up there reproduction

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Phylochart time!

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>>4318814

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FYI: Thread 3 will most likely continue with a 3B version in 3 to 4 weeks. Really depends on how evogame activity picks up.

>>4318820
Eh, I'm just squatting here while I wait for the next Essari thread.

>>4318913
I think one of the main problems we had this round was due to how close the releases of Essari evo and Gas Giant evo were.